AS COVID-19 has spread around the world, people have become grimly familiar with the death tolls that their governments publish each day. These numbers give a better indication of a country’s trajectory than do counts of confirmed cases, which largely measure how many people have been tested. Nonetheless, official covid-19 death tolls still under-count the true number of fatalities that the disease has already caused at that point.
They should be posting Hospitalization numbers and deaths... to show severity as opposed to positive tests... that may have little to no symptoms.
There is a good reason people question the hype that came out of the Gov of NY mouth as he screamed the hospitals would be overwhelmed. They were already dealing with one of the worst flu years in recent memory and handling the higher hospitalizations without complaining throughout Jan & Feb. Reclassifying nearly all Flu & Pneumonia deaths as Covid-19 does not help there case with the public... as anyone that looks at the numbers is left scratching there head.
Below I pulled 2 charts... the 1st from the link above & the 2nd is From NY State Health tracking site. Note that in the 1st Chart NYC is claiming that from March 14th to April 3rd 98% of deaths were Covid related. That flies in the face of YEARS of Flu&Pneumonia data... Especially when we were already in the midst of a record setting flu season for people aged 0-49yrs.
The second chart shows NY Flu & Pneumonia Hospitalizations (Chart says cases at top, but page says it's those that ended up in the hospital for any amount of time) Note how high the hospitalization rate was this year... higher than the record setting season 2 years ago (that no one knew about) The section highlighted in Yellow starts on March 1st when NYC reported it's 1st covid case(Not death... just a positive test)... Also clearly obvious is when NY decided to start reporting nearly ALL Flu & Pneumonia cases as "Covid-19".... You can see how clearly unrealistic that is by just looking at the columns to the LEFT.... Anyone really believe that in the middle of a high year the Flu virtually VANISHED on March 21st???? You're if you do.
The chart pretty much shows that the hospitals weren't much fuller than they were with flu patients just a few weeks prior, which they handled. I'm not saying Covid-19 is no big deal... Clearly it is for old people & those already sick... I'm just pointing out how the official numbers are being played with... and using NY as an example... since their Gov was crying the loudest about it.
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